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Xitter doesn't support strict tracking protection in Firefox.

Create an account to do this thing you don't need an account for.

Also we have 3 captchas and 7 MFA steps you must complete. Please verify your birthday and social security number.

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"Upgrade" to Windows to use this website.

This content is 18+ only and requires an ID/face/genital scan.

"Ask me later"

No, no, and have I mentioned no. Furthermore, fuck you.

"That thing you use for security? Disable it before you come in. Come on, live a little, huh? 😏 Nothing bad's gonna happen. Pinky swear."

I have the same policy with sites that demand I turn off my adblocker

Might as well require a log-in with a free* account (No monetary payment required, please don't read the part about data sharing in the TOS).

Yeah. Never you mind where the fuck I'm actually from. You don't need to know. It's funny how badly you want to know though.

Amusingly I had to disable my vpn to post this

And then there's the mysteries like OneDrive, where I cannot upload without VPN. Either it keeps failing or it's slow.

With a graph, here's what it does without and with VPN, and eventually fails without one:

So, the problem with VPNs is that the cheap ones / resellers have known IPs.

So if you use them you get lumped in with all the people using them maliciously.

If you run a site with any kind of desirable the content the crawlers and scripters hound you endlessly and eventually if you don't want it to be your full time job you just end up banning the entire IP/ ASN that the malicious traffic is coming from.

It sucks and if anyone has any solutions I'm all ears.

Joke's on you when their website is wrapped in an app that you have to use.

Happened to me recently with the app I use to buy train tickets.

Stuff like this shows you who is just there to sell your data, and not sell you an experience.

This is sort of amusing because you need to disable your VPN to make an account on WAFRN last I checked.

But then how will you apply for a passport to emigrate* when they start making applications online only and probably require facial scans using your phone?

(*I'm assuming you're already inside those countries that made such laws)

I swear I saw this exact post from the same handle but the profile pic was vegeta.

Sadly, it's food delivery I've had to add exceptions for :(

I really want to take this same approach but so many websites and apps that I use for shopping for things like groceries now just cease working unless I either manually force cycle through them, or just temporarily disable them. I really hate it.